NEW YORK, NY – Iona College women’s basketball senior guard Damika Martinez earned All-Met First Team honors for the third consecutive season, Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association announced Monday.
Martinez finished her prolific career as arguably the best women’s basketball player to don the Maroon & Gold. She was a three-time MAAC Player of the Year, one of two (Rachele Fitz) in the history of the conference to win the award three times. Martinez led the MAAC in scoring all four years, the first player in MAAC history to do so. Her 2,581 career points rank 44th all-time in Division I history, first all-time men or women in Iona history, first in MAAC women’s basketball history and third all-time in the New York Metropolitan area behind Montclair State’s Carol Blazejowski ’78 and Rutgers Sue Wicks ’88.
As a senior, Martinez’s 24.2 points per game average ranked third in the NCAA. She scored 10 or more points in all 30 games, with 21 20+ point efforts, and six games with 30 or more. A 2014 AP All-American Honorable Mention and All-Met Player of the Year selection, Martinez led the MAAC in made free throws registering 119 points from the charity stripe. Martinez was named MAAC Player of the Week a league best four times in 2014-15. Additionally, Martinez was a finalist for the 2015 Nancy Lieberman Award for the second straight year, given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the nation’s top point guard in NCAA Division I women’s basketball. Martinez was also a mid-season watch list selection for the Dawn Staley Award.